Word: rios
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE LAND FRAUDS IN RIO GRANDE COUNTRY-Senators Moses (Chairman), Edge, Oddie, Heflin...
...white men have ever penetrated it. Here are the scenes of all sorts of fantastic romances, like Conan Doyle's The Lost World and W. H. Hudson's Green Mansions. Here is the fascinating stream called the Casiquiare, reputed to flow both ways and to connect the Rio Negro, largest northern tributary of the Amazon, with the Orinoco. Here nations have not yet ceased to dispute each other's boundaries, for no one is quite sure of what is here. To bring order out of this geographical chaos is the chief purpose of Dr. and Mrs. Alexander...
Experiments with the temperature and rainfall of Brazil showed amazing results. At Rio Janeiro Professor Massart found that the rainfall was six times that in Boston while the temperature averaged 77 degrees...
...screen version of Raymond Hitchcock's musical comedy coyly shies away from a plot most of the time. This permits the insertion of many comic scenes of the Mack Sennett breed. But in the end you can watch the young American (Douglas MacLean), posing as the consul to Rio de Janeira, rescue the necessary senorita (Patsy Ruth Miller...
South America. A rich deposit of dinosaur fossils was discovered along the Rio Chico in the Chubut Territory of Patagonia, by a party from the Field Museum, Chicago, under Professor Elmer S. Riggs...